Stories from Thursday, December 16, 2021

UPDATED WITH CONSTRUCTION DETAILS Missouri-based commercial refrigeration manufacturer True Manufacturing announced Thursday it will build a new facility in Poplar Bluff, investing $21 million and creating 175 new jobs in the area. “This is very exciting news for Poplar Bluff. We’re honored and absolutely delighted that True Manufacturing has chosen our community to locate operations … and appreciate the additional...

FISK — Joe W. Elsworth, age 82, of Ellsinore, Missouri, formerly of Fisk, Missouri, died on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, at his residence in Ellsinore. Mr. Elsworth was born June 7, 1939, in Holcomb, Missouri, son of the late Woodrow and Hannah Elsworth. He was a member of Star Community Church in Fisk. Joe enjoyed hunting and fishing and was a member of Bassmasters Club...

NEELYVILLE, Mo. — Charlie Moore, 73, of Poplar Bluff, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021 surrounded by his family. The newest farm hand on the Moore Farm was born in Doniphan, Missouri Oct. 23, 1948. His parents, Bud and Josephine Moore, gave him eight months off before his first watermelon harvest, and to hear him tell it he did it by himself. ...

Christmas ornaments are missing from the Butler County University of Missouri Extension Office, 614 Lindsay Ave., in Poplar Bluff. “Truman, the Missouri Tiger, is up to his mischievous ways and has taken our Mizzou decorations and hid them across the county,” said John Fuller, MSW, extension human development and family sciences specialist. “We have an activity that is going on in the office across Butler County.”...

Incumbent Jill McGruder is the fourth candidate to file for one of two Neelyville R-IV school board positions. Voters will elect two board members in April. This is McGruder’s second time to run for school board. A nurse practitioner, McGruder is the Women’s Health Medical Director at the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center...

Twin Rivers R-X incumbent Bruce Goodrich has filed for reelection, according to the district office. Fellow general member Lee Wright was last reported as undecided about running again. Qualified applicants for the Twin Rivers R-X board may file during business hours at the Twin Rivers Central Office, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Dec. ...

Poplar Bluff residents turned out en masse Monday to assemble donations for the battered community of Mayfield. The journey to deliver those donations took volunteers through extremes of both destruction and generosity as they ultimately traveled through three stricken communities...

The Paducah, Kentucky, office of the National Weather Service has estimated peak wind speeds of 190 miles per hour in the severe weather system that tore across Kentucky on Dec. 10. It has said it was a “high end” EF-4 tornado that was part of a 163-mile path of destruction. Tornadoes are rated a catastrophic EF-5 at winds speeds of 200 miles per hour...

POPLAR BLUFF FIRE DEPARTMENT Firefighters were dispatched at 1:01 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 15, to the 1200 block of Mill Street, where it was reported there was smoke in the air. It was investigation only. POPLAR BLUFF POLICE DEPARTMENT Carl L. Tooley, 55, who listed County Road 523 and Pine Street addresses, was arrested at 8:43 a.m. ...